The temp early this morning hit 14° F, after a high of 39° yesterday. As the pond had already been safely iced over for a few weeks, it made for perfect skating conditions today.
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Sad to see this wonderful tree come down, but as one of the tree guys said when looking at the job: “it’s got a lot of problems”. Not the least of which was a huge branch (on the right in the photo) leaning toward the house, and more importantly, the backside of that branch with a substantial amount of bark loss and signs of an insect infestation at its base. The tree offered the best dappled shade, though, courtesy of its small leaf structure, and a sparse canopy.
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I asked a guy who was chopping wood nearby if he knew what kind of tree this was. He said “Well my fifth-grade daughter once did a report on it, and ID’ed it as a charter oak, or a white oak”. Good enough for me.
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Pare Everything Down To Almost Nothing
then cut the rest
and you’ve got
the poem
I’m trying to write.
David Budbill
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Taken out in our backyard in Ivoryton, when the small forest of blue spruce trees I planted some ten years previous had grown to an average height of seven-eight feet. Now they’re probably triple that size.
*Here’s a nice version of the Christmas carol, also known as O Tannenbaum; it’s based on an old German folk song.
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